🚀 go-pugleaf

>Kevin W. Davidson wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Spreadbury previously wrote in comp.sys.amiga.applications:
>> >> In article <829238030.27799@digita.demon.co.uk>, info@digita.demon.co.uk
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>>
>> I remember when Commodore was sold to ESCOM and everybody figured
>> that all ESCOM wanted was the trademark and that the Amiga was headed
>> right down the tubes. But that didn't happen. Amiga production was
>> restarted and Amiga development went ahead. But I said at the time
>> that if somebody was going to pay GOOD MONEY for Commodore, then they
>> weren't about flush it down the drain.
>>
>> Now AT has been sold FOR EVEN MORE MONEY to Visicorp (a company
>> FULL of Amiga bigots--if you haven't heard). These guys aren't
>> spending $40 million just for the privilege of flushing Amy down
>> the toilet either.
>>
>> Stay cool.
>>
>> Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
>>
>> >--
>>
>> I'm keepin' my hyphen, so there.
>
>This to me sounds like a good thing for the Amiga, somebody atlast has
>realises that the Amiga is worth some real money, you don`t imho spend
>40 million buying a company that a. the previous owner bought for 10
>million(I think)

What if this is a 'stock transfer' and NOT a sale for cash? Change any
minds? We don't know the details yet ...


 and b. tha has a few bits of technologhy that would be
>useful for a set top box and you already have a license for unless you
>have some pretty big intentions for the bits that you have not got a
>license for, in this case the Amiga computer.

Or you want to protect the initial investment and aren't sure what a
new owner might do in the way of licensing?

>Also the odds are that the Amiga may still appear in Escom shops as they
>are one of its present distribution channels. (read the announcement
>at http://www.cucug.org/at/at960411.html)

What if VisCorp doesn't buy any of the inventory that is in the
pipeline? That may be Escom's ONLY way to get rid of what they have on
the floor ...

Gary Peake       "Mystic Meg"                      Unelected Official          
     
Gemini2@cup.portal.com    1:106/7512.1                 Team AMIGA  
                                                 
              Proud supporter of Amiga Technologies/VisCorp   

... People will buy anything if it's in short supply!

-*- ASTG 1.9